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Is Kijin Gentoushou good to watch with a friend?

A quiet night. Kijin Gentoushou (Sword of the Demon Hunter) is a TV series from Spring 2025 by Yokohama Animation Lab: 24 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 7.27/10 across the listing sites.

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Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.

This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.

The facts

Type
TV series
Episodes
24
Episode length
25 min
Total time
about 10 hours — a weekend
First aired
Spring 2025
Status
Finished
Studio
Yokohama Animation Lab
Score
7.27/10 across the listing sites
Tags
action, adventure, slice of life, dark fantasy, demons, detective, drama, episodic, fantasy, gore, historical, love triangle, mystery, nudity, psychological, revenge, samurai, superpowers, supernatural, swordplay, time travel, tragedy, violence, youkai

Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho; Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentoushou.

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Quick answers

How long does it take to watch all of Kijin Gentoushou?
About 10 hours for all 24 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
How many episodes does Kijin Gentoushou have?
24 episodes of 25 min.
Is Kijin Gentoushou finished?
Yes, Kijin Gentoushou is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
Is Kijin Gentoushou good for a group?
Better for two than for a crowd. Kijin Gentoushou is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
Where is Kijin Gentoushou listed?
Kijin Gentoushou is on AniList (id 143598) and MyAnimeList (id 49778); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.

Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists